Data Protection Policy

This Data Protection Policy establishes how User personal data are processed in the context of this Site.

Users of this Site may communicate, to CACEIS, the Site publisher, personal data about themselves by using the various media for collection, tools and services made available to them on the Site.

The data collected may form the subject of processing, automated or not, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”, of 27 April 2016 and under the conditions attached to each collection medium or service, described in the General Terms of Use of the Site (insert link) and this Data Protection Policy.

For the purposes of this Policy, the following terms: “personal data”, “data protection officer”, “to process/processing”, “data controller”, “recipient”, “data processor” and “to transfer/transfer” have the same meaning as that given to them in the GDPR.

Data controller and purposes

The personal data collected via the various services or data collection media featuring on this Site are collected by CACEIS, the publisher of the Site, acting as data controller within the meaning of the GDPR, except where it is expressly mentioned on the data collection medium that the data controller is a third party. In this case, under the law, the data controller will specify to you the characteristics of the processing activity that it implements under its sole responsibility.

In the context of use of the Site and its services, the personal data that you communicate are collected and processed by CACEIS in order to respond to your requests expressed using the forms, tools and services made available to you, to fulfil a contractual or pre-contractual obligation at your request, to fulfil our statutory obligations or to satisfy pursuit of the legitimate interests of the publisher of the Site or of a third party without disregarding the rights of the user.

The purpose of the cookies present on the Site is to allow the correct functioning of the Site, to measure the Site audience and also to be able to personalise your experience and, subject to your consent, to send you personalised communications relating to your requirements. On the legal basis of the legitimate interest or the consent as the case may be, the data may be processed for the purpose of commercial prospection, subject to compliance with the relevant regulations (right to oppose prospecting by post and by telephone - prior consent for prospecting carried out electronically).

Characteristics concerning the use and collection of data

You are not obliged to answer all the questions you are asked on the Site.

The mandatory nature of communication of information is indicated by the presence of wording to this end. However, failure to communicate these data will mean that CACEIS will be unable to process your request or that you will be unable to use the tool or the service.

Data retention time

The User’s personal data are retained and processed for the period necessary to achievement of the purpose pursued and, as a maximum, for the periods mentioned in this data protection policy:

36 months for commercial prospection purposes;

14 months as from storage of cookies on the user’s hardware;

14 months for login data (IP address, logs, etc.).

Procedures for exercising your rights

You have rights over the personal data about you that we collect and process in connection with your use of the Site, its services and your requests. These rights are as follows:

a right of access, rectification and erasure of data (which are inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous or outdated);

the right of restriction of the processing of your data under the conditions provided for in the regulations;

the right of portability of data;

the right to withdraw your consent at any time;

the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority.

You may exercise these rights by writing to the data protection officer: caceisdpo@caceis.com

In the event of any dispute, the user may file a complaint with the CNIL [French data protection authority] whose website address is www.cnil.fr and whose registered office is at 3 Place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris.

Data recipients

Your personal data may be communicated to:

any entity within the CACEIS Group in the event of pooling of resources or grouping of companies;

our subcontractors solely for the purposes of subcontracting;

our partners in order for the user to benefit from these partnerships.

Using data for prospecting purposes

In accordance with the applicable regulations, any prospection by telephone or email, will be carried out only with the prior consent of the concerned user.

If you agree to receive such prospecting messages from CACEIS by checking the boxes of acceptance provided for this purpose on this site, you will be able at any time to reconsider this consent. Eeach of the prospecting emails you will offer the possibility to oppose to future emails of prospection from CACEIS, editor of the Site.

At any time and free of charge, you can oppose any prospection by other means by writing to the contacts mentioned in the paragraph "Procedures for exercising your rights". The stamp costs will be refunded on request.

Cookies

When browsing our website, information relating to your browsing may be saved in small files known as cookies, installed on your device (computer, tablet, smartphone, etc.), subject to the choices expressed regarding cookies, which you can modify at any time.

The information below will help you understand how cookies work and how current tools can be used for settings.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file, image or software, containing information, which is saved on your device’s hard drive (e.g. computer, tablet, smartphone, or any device allowing browsing on the Internet) when visiting a website using your browser. It is transmitted by the service of a website to your browser. The cookie file concerns in particular, pages visited, adverts on which you have clicked, the type of browser you are using and your IP address, and enables its issuer to identify the device on which it is saved, for the period of validity or saving of the cookie in question.

Only the issuer of a cookie can read or modify the information contained in it.

Cookies facilitate your browsing on our Site and are essential to access certain secure spaces. If you decide to block all cookies using your Internet browser, you will only be able to visit the public area of our Site.

As stated on the Site information banner, by continuing to browse our Site, you agree to our use of cookies. You can change your mind at any time, by objecting to the saving of cookies (see below: objecting to the saving of cookies).

Why do we use cookies?

We use 2 types of cookies, the purposes of which are described below.

Some technical cookies (session cookies in particular) are essential for the smooth running of the website. Their removal can result in browsing difficulties as well as the impossibility of subscribing on-line to our offers.

1. Technical cookies

Technical cookies are cookies strictly necessary to the functioning of the Site. They make it possible to access the reserved and private areas of our Site, thanks to personal logins (session identifier cookies), to implement security measures (for example, when a new request is made to log on to a content or a service after a certain period of time), and to allow or to facilitate communication for the provision of a service electronically, expressly requested by the browser. These cookies are deleted once you close your browsing session.

These cookies are issued and stored by CACEIS. They have a very short life, for the most part, the length of the session, and one year at the most.

2. Cookies for analytics and the production of statistics

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website. For example, the number of visits, the pages most frequently visited and so on. These cookies make it possible to produce analytics based on traffic, resulting in improvement of our site contents depending on the success encountered by a particular page with our visitors.

The data collected are not transferred to third parties or used for other purposes.

3. Sharing cookies (social networks)

Our site contains sharing buttons ("plug-ins") to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, which allow you to share content from our Site with other people. When you use these sharing buttons, your internet browser will establish a connection with the servers of the social networks concerned and a third-party cookie is installed after collection of your consent. If you are connected to the social network during your navigation on our site, the buttons of sharing make it possible to connect the contents to your user account.

In this context, the purposes and scope of the use of your data, additional treatments and your rights will be subject to the privacy policies of social network providers and placed under their full responsibility.

4. Targeted or advertising cookies

This type of cookie can only be installed with your prior consent.

These cookies collect information about the navigation of your terminal on our site in order to offer you targeted advertisements that are adapted to you and / or corresponding to your interests. They allow us to adapt the advertising content displayed on your device in our advertising space, depending on the browsing information collected.

We are also liable, subject to your choice, to associate navigation information about your device collected by the cookies we emit, with your personal data that you have transmitted to us when you access your personal space, in order, for example, to send you electronic commercial offers or to display on our advertising spaces or on the sites of our partners (third-party sites) personalized advertisements that are specifically intended for you and that may be of interest to you personally.

These cookies also allow us to limit the number of ad appearances and help us evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

For the presentation of our targeted advertising on third party sites, we accept the installation of cookies by advertising agencies with which we have partnerships. As part of these partnerships, we may send them anonymous navigation data about you; however, we do not provide personal information about you to third-party sites that display our ads.

You have several options for managing cookies. Any settings you set in place may modify your Internet browsing and your conditions of access to certain services requiring the use of cookies.

If you share use of your terminal with other people

If your terminal is used by more than one person and when the same terminal uses more than one browsing software, we cannot guarantee you that the services intended for your terminal correspond to your own use of this terminal and not to the use of another user.

You can decide at any time to indicate and change your requirements in terms of cookies, using the methods described below.

1. Your browser settings

You can set your browsing software so that cookies are saved on your terminal or, on the contrary, that they are disabled either systematically or depending on their issuer. You can also set your browsing software so that you are asked, selectively, to accept or refuse cookies, before a cookie can be saved on your terminal.

The settings of each browser are different. They are described in your browser’s menu.

Click on the icon representing three vertical bars on the browser toolbar.

Select Settings.

Click on “Show advanced settings”.

In the “Privacy” section, click on “Content settings”.

Under “Cookies”, you can block cookies and data from third party sites.

in Firefox

At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firebox button (Tools menu in Windows XP), then choose Options.

Select the “Privacy and Security” panel.

Set Cookies setting: to “Use custom settings for history”.

De-select “Accept cookies”.

in Safari

Go into Settings > Preferences.

Click “Privacy”.

Under “Block cookies”, select “Always”.

in Internet Explorer

Go into Tools > Internet Options.

Click “Privacy” tab.

Click Advanced, select “Refuse”.

in Opéra

Go into Settings > Preferences.

Click “Advanced” tab.

In “Cookies”, select “Never accept cookies”.

in Microsoft Edge

Go into Settings

Click on "Advance"

In the Coookies section, select the desired option.

2. Your choices made online directly from our Site: opt-out terms

From our Site, you can also set your choices relating to the cookies that we save on your terminal, using the link shown below. If the cookie is refused, a cookie solely aimed at disabling the services associated with the cookie will be saved on your terminal.

NB: consideration of your request relies on a cookie. If you delete all cookies saved on your terminal, via your browser, we will no longer know that you have selected this option.